The government of Uganda is lobbying other regional blocs and the African Union to join the bargains against a proposed cut in aid by the United Nations to Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) fighters in Somalia.<\/p>\n
The United Nations has announced a 20 per cent cut in its support to the troops from over Sh3 million to slightly above Sh\u00a0 2 million for every soldier.<\/p>\n
Foreign Affairs Minister Okello Oryem tells KFM that the move by the UN is dangerous not only to Somalia but Africa as a continent.<\/p>\n
Uganda deployed her troops in Somalia in 2007 to fight the Al-shabaab Islamist militants and has since made several strides towards restoration of peace and order.<\/p>\n
Story By Moses Kyeyune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government of Uganda is lobbying other regional blocs and the African Union to join the bargains against a proposed cut in aid by the United Nations to Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) fighters in Somalia. The United Nations has announced a 20 per cent cut in its support to the troops from over Sh3 million to slightly above Sh\u00a0 2 million for every soldier. Foreign Affairs Minister Okello Oryem tells KFM that the move by the UN is dangerous not only to Somalia but Africa as a continent. Uganda deployed her troops in Somalia in 2007 to fight the Al-shabaab Islamist militants and has since made several strides towards restoration of peace and order. Story By Moses Kyeyune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}